Showing posts with label Mad Men. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mad Men. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Was Don Draper Mumbling More Than Usual This Week?
Did anyone else notice who directed this week's episode ("Hands and Knees") of Mad Men? Right, probably not. So it's a good thing God invented SMC.
The answer, as you will know in mere milliseconds, is Humpday director Lynn Shelton. I'd like to get all pompous with a discourse about how her indie aesthetic captured the transitional malaise of the the mid-60s landscape, but I didn't notice any difference. It's TV and all the episodes are supposed to look the same, like one long movie. Not being an industry insider, I can only guess that she would have been back filming Mark Duplass's ass pretty quickly if she whipped out the hand-held. Still a good opportunity and welcome exposure.
While we're here, I think Mad Men is edging closer and closer to overtaking The Wire for best show ever status. It's not really fair to consider an active show since so much depends on the series wrap-up, but it's worth keeping an eye on.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Playlist: Mad Men
I never fought in a war, I just started drinking whiskey, I do not look "good" in a suit. Do I need these things in my life?...Yes! if his name is Don Draper. Cooper was a man of the Great Depression, Sterling fought in the Pacific during WWII, Draper is a post Korea 1950's man of Men, he is our hope and dreams, he is our super-man. But this man's life is falling apart, as is evident in the opening of every show, he is trying to fit in and be in control, that's why the end of season 3 is so great, he is desperate, they all are desperate, it is the need to have Peggy and Pete, the need to "Move Forward"...as Don says in season 2 I think that links him as a man that must evolve, even if at this moment he is perfect, he knows he must change...
I am scared...I am scared that the writers will just use some clause in the contract to force these men back to the hell that is "Sterling Cooper"...and not give us what we want...what I want...I want Don to move on..."Move Forward"...I want the glory of "Sterling, Cooper, Draper, and Price" to be realized...I want them to hustle, not flounder..I want Betty to suffer, I want this "whore," as Don says, to be a beaten down louse of a woman.
We shall see...as season 4 starts up hopefully in July...we have a lot to look forward to
I am scared...I am scared that the writers will just use some clause in the contract to force these men back to the hell that is "Sterling Cooper"...and not give us what we want...what I want...I want Don to move on..."Move Forward"...I want the glory of "Sterling, Cooper, Draper, and Price" to be realized...I want them to hustle, not flounder..I want Betty to suffer, I want this "whore," as Don says, to be a beaten down louse of a woman.
We shall see...as season 4 starts up hopefully in July...we have a lot to look forward to
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